new technologies, products and services, develop alternative customer service channels, and namely achieve the innovation … process, innovation becoming finally an effective mean of competition. …

Policy-makers have become increasingly aware that corporate R&D and innovation are the main drivers of an economy … concludes that policy measures to stimulate corporate R&D and innovation activities should be expressly conceived according to …

This paper introduces the evolving understanding and conceptualization of innovation process models. We categorize the … different approaches to understand and model innovation processes into two types. First, the so-called innovation management … approach focuses on the evolution of corporate innovation management strategies in different social and economic environments …

-reinforcing innovation patterns: we show that it is mainly driven by the existing knowledge enclosures, and that it polarizes investment …

. SMEs are also less likely than larger firms to use others' patents as a source of information for their own innovation …

evidence on patents as incentives for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and …

investment specialization across sectors and show that knowledge enclosures involve self-reinforcing innovation patterns …

then use the data to consider some key issues in dynamic competition and innovation. We look at the incidence and … distribution of patent races by technology, evidence for strategic delay of innovation by incumbent firms, and evidence that patent …

innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …

Financing constraints have been discussed as a major obstacle to innovation. Small and medium-sized enterprises and … sense and as instruments for financing innovation. It also discusses implications of these developments for public policy …